unproductiveness

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Others suggest that after five years of infirmity, unproductiveness and cramped quarters the thought of having a new play produced might amount to a rebirth.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not small in quantity, though his unproductiveness in later years has made it appear that he was less fluent and abundant in verse than he really was.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Inventors, great and small, never cease to complain over the periods of unproductiveness which they undergo in spite of themselves.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen

The good qualities of the variety are offset by comparative unproductiveness and unevenness in ripening.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.

I know that the unproductiveness of the estate weighs on him.

From Fruitfulness by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred